Tag: Online retail
Retail return fraud is rising as key holiday deadline approaches
Deadlines loom for consumers who want to send back unwanted holiday gifts.Many retailers extend return windows for purchases made in November and Dece [...]
Retailers, Covid-era nostalgia revive the vinyl records industry
A stack of freshly pressed gold vinyl records at United Record Pressing.CNBCThis story is part of CNBC's new quarterly Cities of Success series, which [...]
J. Crew launches virtual beach house storefront for 40th anniversary
J. Crew virtual beach house.Courtesy: J. CrewIn a brown shingled beach house tucked behind stalks of reed grass, J. Crew customers encounter a new sho [...]
Carvana shares surge after company boosts second-quarter guidance
A Carvana glass tower sits illuminated on Feb. 23, 2022, in Oak Brook, Illinois.Armando L. Sanchez | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesShares of onli [...]
Depop, Poshmark secondhand resale gets cutthroat
The Depop application on a smartphone arranged on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSix months after launching his secondh [...]
Inflation? Recession? Starting Black Friday, America plans to spend
Pedestrians view the holiday windows at the Macy's Inc. flagship department store in the Herald Square area of New York, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 2, 20 [...]
Fanatics is in talks to buy sports betting company Tipico, sources say
Michael Rubin arrives at the 2019 Fanatics Super Bowl Party on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Atlanta.Paul R. Giunta | Invision | APFanatics, the sports m [...]
Fanatics aims to be $100 billion company
Michael Rubin arrives at the 2019 Fanatics Super Bowl Party on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Atlanta.Paul R. Giunta | Invision | APSports e-commerce comp [...]
Homebuilders turn to mixed-use districts, master-planned communities
Americans who are short on cash to make rent may need to face an uncomfortable reality: Conditions will likely get worse before they get better.U.S. h [...]
Liquidation services resell returned items, a $644 billion business
Inside Liquidity Services' 130,000-square-foot warehouse in Garland, Texas, the aisles aren't lined with typical merchandise. Instead, they're stacked [...]
Buy now pay later boom shows no signs of slowing this holiday season
Betsie Van der Meer | DigitalVision | Getty ImagesThe buy now, pay later phenomenon is showing little signs of slowing down.Shoppers have flocked t [...]
New top job at McDonald’s that’s all about understanding the customer
A customer receives an order from a drive-thru window at a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in London, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 durin [...]
Macy’s CEO, department store veteran, fights the Amazon future
The entrances at Macy's are decorated with Christmas decorations on December 04, 2020 in New York City.Roy Rochlin | Getty Images Entertainment | G [...]
Kroger is taking on Publix in Florida without opening a single grocery store
Kroger's delivery vans double as a billboard. The company is using them to get out the word that it's now offering grocery deliveries in Florida.Me [...]
What’s next for bus operator Greyhound post-pandemic
Intercity bus travel in the U.S. has long been dominated by one iconic brand: Greyhound. With its fleet of 1,200 buses, Greyhound shuttles nearly 1 [...]